Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences School of Behavioural Science

Recent academic publications


Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Bain, P., Lyons , A., Tindale, R.S., Robins, G., Vears, C. & Whelan, J. (in press). Communication and essentialism: Grounding the shared reality of a social category. Social Cognition.

Robins, G., Pattison, P., & Wang, P. (In press). Closure, connectivity and degrees: New specifications for exponential random graph (p*) models for directed social networks. Social Networks.

Robins, G. (In press). Understanding individual behaviors within covert networks: The interplay of individual qualities, psychological predispositions, and network effects. Trends in organized crime.

Rank, O., Robins, G., & Pattison, P. (In press). Structural logic of intra-organizational networks. Organization Science.

Wang, P., Sharpe, K., Pattison, P., & Robins, G. (2009). Exponential random graph (p*) models for affiliation networks. Social Networks, 31, 12-25.

Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Pattison, P., & Robins, G. (In press). Personality for free: Psychometric properties of a public domain Australian measure of the five factor model. Australian Journal of Psychology.  

Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Pattison, P.,Wearing, A., & Robins, G. (2008). Big boys don’t cry: An investigation of stoicism and its mental health outcomes. Personality and individual differences, 44, 1369-1381.

Lusher, D., & Robins, G. (In press). Hegemonic and other masculinities in local social contexts. Men and masculinities.

Robins, G., Pattison, P., & Koskinen, J. (2008). Network degree distributions. Report to Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation: University of Melbourne

Robins, G., & Kashima, Y. (2008). Social psychology and social networks. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11, 1-12. Preprint. Robins, G.L. (In press). Exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks. In Myers, R. (Ed), Encyclopaedia of Complexity and System Science. Springer. Preprint. Pattison, P., & Robins, G. L. (2008). Probabilistic network theory. In Rudas, T (Ed.), Handbook of Probability: Theory and Applications. (pp.291-312). Sage: Thousand Oaks , CA. Preprint .

Pattison, P. E., Robins, G. L., & Kashima, Y. (In press).  Psychology of social networks.  In Blume, L., & Durlauf, S. (Eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition.  Basingstoke , Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Koskinen, J., Robins, G., & Pattison, P. (2007). Missing data in social network analysis: Inferences from incomplete missing data. Report to Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation: University of Melbourne.

Robins, G.L., & Pattison, P. (2007). Social networks and social space: Topologies, structures and models. In Mitchell, B., Baum, S., O'Neill P., &; McGuirk, P. (Eds). Proceedings of the ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop, University of Newcastle , Australia , 15-17 June 2005 (pp: 152-164). Melbourne , Vic.: RMIT Publishing.

Robins, G.L., & Pattison, P. (2007). Social networks and social space: Topologies, structures and models. In Mitchell, B., Baum, S., O'Neill P., &; McGuirk, P. (Eds). Proceedings of the ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop, University of Newcastle , Australia , 15-17 June 2005 (pp: 152-164). Melbourne , Vic.: RMIT Publishing.

Jackson, H., Judd, F., Komiti, A., Fraser, C., Murray, G., Robins, G., Pattison, P., & Wearing, A. (2007). Mental health problems in rural contexts: What are the barriers to seeking help from professional providers? Australian Journal of Psychology, 42, 147-160.

Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Pattison, P.,Wearing, A., & Robins, G. (2007). Ceremonies of the whole: Does social participation moderate the mood consequences of neuroticism? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42, 173-180.

Wasserman, S., Robins, G., & Steinley, D. (2007). Statistical models for networks: A brief review of some recent research. In E. Airoldi, D. M. Blei, S. E. Fienberg, A. Goldenberg, E. P. Xing, & A. X. Zheng (Eds.), Social network analysis: Models, issues, and new directions (pp. 45-56). New York : Springer.

Robins, G., & Morris, M. (2007). Advances in exponential random graph (p*) models. Social Networks, 29, 169-172 .

Robins, G., Pattison, P., Kalish, Y., & Lusher, D. (2007). An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks. Social Networks, 29, 173-191.
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Robins, G.L., Snijders, T.A.B., Wang, P., Handcock, M., & Pattison,P. (2007). Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks.  Social Networks, 29, 192-215.
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  Snijders, T.A.B., Pattison, P., Robins, G.L., & Handcock, M. (2006). New specifications for exponential random graph models. Sociological Methodology, 36, 99-153.
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Winter, S., & Robins, G. (Eds)  (2007). Proceedings of the International workshop on social space and geographic space. University of Melbourne .

Robins, G.L., & Pattison, P. (2006). Multiple networks in organisations. Report to Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation: University of Melbourne .

Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Murray, G., Robins, G., & Komiti, A. (2006). Understanding suicide in Australian farmers. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41, 1-10. Semadar, A., Robins, G.L., & Ferris, G.R. (2006). Social effectiveness and managerial performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27, 443-461.

Semadar, A., Robins, G.L., & Ferris, G.R. (2006). Social effectiveness and managerial performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27, 443-461

Wong, L.H., Pattison, P., & Robins, G. (2006). A spatial model for social networks. Phsyica A, 360, 99-120.
               
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Kalish, Y., & Robins, G.L. (2006). Psychological predispositions and network structure: The relationship between individual predispositions, structural holes and network closure. Social Networks, 28, 56-84.
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Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Hodgins, G., Pattison, P., Humphreys, J., & Robins, G. (2005). The five factor model and accessibility/remoteness: Novel evidence for person-environment interaction. Personality and individual differences, 39, 715-725.

Robins, G., Lusher, D., & Kremer, P. (2005). Masculine behaviours and social networks in team settings. Report to the AFL Research and Development Board.

Robins, G.L., Woolcock, J., & Pattison, P. (2005). Small and other worlds: Global network structures from local processes. American Journal of Sociology, 110, 894-936.
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Robins, G.L., & Pattison, P. (2005). Interdependencies and social processes: Generalized dependence structures. In Carrington, Scott & Wasserman (Eds) Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (pp. 192-214). Cambridge University Press.

Robins, G.L., & Pattison, P. (2005). Interdependencies and social processes: Generalized dependence structures. In Carrington, Scott & Wasserman (Eds) Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (pp. 192-214). Cambridge University Press.

Wasserman, S., & Robins, G.L. (2005). An Introduction to Random Graphs, Dependence Graphs, and p*. In Carrington, Scott & Wasserman (Eds) Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (pp. 148-161). Cambridge University Press.

Fraser, C., Jackson, H., Judd, F., Komiti, A., Robins, G., Murray, G., Humphreys, J., Pattison, P., & Hodgins, G. (2005). Mental health and population decline in rural Australia. Journal of Health and Place , 11, 157-171.

Pattison, P., & Robins, G.L. (2004). Building models for social space: Neighbourhood based models for social networks and affiliation structures. Mathematiques des science humaines, 4, 11-29.

Robins, G.L., Woolcock, J., & Pattison, P. (2004). Models for social networks with missing data.  Social Networks, 26, 257-283.
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Murray, G., Judd, F., Jackson, H., Fraser, C., Komiti, A., Hodgins, G., Pattison, P., Humphries, J., & Robins, G. (2004). Rurality and mental health: The role of accessibility. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 629-634

Robins, G.L., & Alexander, M. (2004). Small worlds among interlocking directors: Network structure and distance in bipartite graphs. Invited paper for Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 10, 69-94.
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Robins, G.L., & Boldero, J. (2003). Relational discrepancy theory: The implications of self-discrepancy theory for dyadic relationships and for the emergence of social structure. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 56-74.
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Pattison, P., Robins, G., Woolcock, J., Bergin, S. & Rogers, P. (2003). Placing people: Optimizing the spatial location of organizational members embedded in a work interaction network.Report to Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation: University of Melbourne.

Pattison, P., & Robins, G.L. (2002). Neighbourhood based models for social networks. Sociological Methodology, 32, 301-337.
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Robins, G.L., Pattison, P, & Elliott, P. (2001). Network models for social influence processes. Psychometrika, 66, 161-190..
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Robins, G.L., Elliott, P., & Pattison, P. (2001). Network models for social selection processes. Social Networks, 23, 1-30.
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Robins, G.L., & Pattison, P. (2001). Random graph models for temporal processes in social networks. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 25, 5-41 .
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Updated 21 May 2009

 

 

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